As of the 1st May, .kiwi domains will be publicly available from the Lounge Network. For your customers this might be a great opportunity to own a piece of digital real estate that’s been unattainable under .co.nz. They might also be interested in protecting their intellectual property under the new TLD. Now is a great time to let them know about the upcoming opportunities.

The Lounge Network are protecting your businesses website from attackers..

At the Lounge Network we work hard to ensure your web site loads fast, is reliable and secure. This isn’t easy with more than 7,000 DDoS attacks occurring daily around the globe.

We are writing to advise that we have scheduled security patching that will require reboots for some of our mysql servers during the following period.

Start Time: 21/03/2014 00:00 NZDT
End Time: 21/03/2014 02:00 NZDT

The following database servers will be affected

mysql3.webhost.co.nz 

We thank you for your understanding while this working is completed and apologise for any inconvenience caused.

We have scheduled the installation of the latest Atmail software patches on Wednesday, 19/03/2014, early morning. The patches address mainly bug fixes and improvements.

Start Time: 19/03/2014 00:00 NZST

End Time: 19/03/2014 00:30 NZST

Our providers have scheduled maintenance on win1.mydns.net.nz for tonight, within the following period:

Start time: 07/03/2014 12:00 NZDT
End time: 07/03/2014 02:00 NZDT

During this time your website will be unavailable for a period while the server is restarted.

This was discussed in an announcement earlier in the week, but may have been overlooked by some users. Due to some security updates on the CPanel servers we will need to cease providing  access to the free shared secure certificate, on all shared CPanel hosting servers, effective immediately.

All CPanel servers will have security updates applied in the coming days. The server technicians will be enabling the Symlink Patch on the servers as security measure. This patch will ensure that no user can create a link in their account to files under another user, or server configuration files, and thus accessing information from it. 

During this week and next we will be completing our migration of the system back-end database system to MariaDB. This refers to the infrastructure that runs the controlpanel and hosting systems, and does not affect customer’s hosted databases. MariaDB offers better real-time support and security, and importantly flexibility and a future focus for next generation services.


No impact is expected as we have been running MariaDB in parallel for some time in order to check data integrity. However we want to inform our customers of the changeover dates and times which are as follows:


Tuesday 11th Feb, 6AM:
All DNS and redirects changed so that they read from the new cluster.


Tuesday 18th Feb, 6AM:
Control Panel changed so that it reads from the new cluster.